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Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs
An anonymous reader writes "A story on Wired News reports the problems Jewish synagogues have protecting their Torahs from theft. The Torah scrolls, containing the five books of Moses, are hand lettered over the course of a year, are often hundreds of years old, and can sell for $50,000 or more. But Judaic law "dictates that not one character can be added to the 304,805 letters of the Torah's text", which makes them untraceable and easily sold on the black market. Rabbinic authorities have recently approved two computer-based systems to make the scrolls traceable: one takes a digital fingerprint of a Torah, a second makes microperforations in the parchment that yield a unique identifier."
Did we quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...?
No...
As an Orthodox Jew I have to agree that the State of Israel does have two forms of justice and unfortunately while the media portrays (getting it wrong of course) Israel as a reflection Judaism - in reality it's the farthest thing from basic Jewish beliefs. A not so well known fact on this subject (unless you happen to know a little history, which unfortunately most people don't) - up until the founding of the State of Israel the nearly unanimous position of Orthodox Rabbinical community is that the whole concept of nationalism (Zionism) prior to the arrival of the Messiah was and is completely wrong. Unfortunately now, while a large proportion of Orthodox Jewry believe Zionism is wrong, they don't speak out - meanwhile Israel gets a free bite at the apple to kill as many Palestinians as desired and the US protects them politically, financially and militarily. Bottom line, the State of Israel should have never been created, it has nothing to do with Jewish beliefs that Jews have been following for the last 2000 years and innocent people - men, women and children, both Jews and Palestinians are being killed as a result - on top of all of this it makes all Jews look bad.
Jews have laws this tough on protecting their culture, yet they bomb the palestinans without mercy, often killing innocent bystanders and not giving a crap. Sure, they say "it is just payback", but who exactly are they paying back? Screw it... they all look alike.
Well, if you look at a factual analysis of all deaths, you will see that the Israels are going out of their way to avoid civilian casualties when they kill leaders of Islamic Jihad, Hamas, PFLP, and all the other islam-o-nuts.
By comparison, killing civilians is the goal of terrorist attacks.
In summary:
1. Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties.
2. Palestinians try to cause civilian casualties.
No matter how bad the crime, they can never give the death penalty to another Jew. But they can slaughter non-jews at will.
If that were true, at the next large Hamas rally/brainwashing event, the Israelis would lob in a few cluster bombs, killing a few thousand. Repeat a dozen times, and the conflict will be over. But unlike the Arab world, Israel doesn't believe in killing indiscriminately.
In the early 1980s, when the Muslim Brotherhood began to threaten the government of Syria, President Assad had the army surround the town of Hama, where they were based, and demolished it, killing 30,000 people. What was the reaction from the UN? Nothing. From the Arab League? Nothing.
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Your potential converts wouldn't be so distracted if you took that beam out of your eye...
Seriously, when Christ went to eat with the publicans and sinners, do you think he was flinging epithets at them the whole time? People will change if they love someone and feel that their own behavior hurts the loved one. Serve them, love them, and those that come to care about you and God will change their own lives accordingly.
And your point?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
All I have to say.